Exposing assets (data or services) via APIs can prove to be extremely valuable for an organization. However in most cases, it’s not enough to solve only the technical challenges of opening an API. It can even be counterproductive for the […]

Manfred will be presenting a related workshop: Practical API Lifecycle Management at APIdays Paris on Tuesday, December 2. The API lifecycle is made up of four stages, which an API provider would iterate through several times as part of an API program: […]

Guest Post from 3scale collaboration partner Lorinda Brandon of SmartBear In a recent post in our API Lifecycle series we discussed API best practices and highlighted the importance of tools. Specifically there are still some areas in the API lifecycle […]

How we got there & then what happened… Part 1 Last Thursday we announced that APIs.io – the first open source search engine for APIs, which we’ve worked on with API Evangelist – had indexed more than 800 APIs. This was a major milestone. Along with our usual promotion, […]

The API lifecycle is made up of four stages, which an API provider would iterate through several times as part of an API program: Plan/Design, Build/Integrate, Operate/Manage, and Share/Engage. You can find a more detailed description of the API Lifecycle in the […]

New Challenges and Exciting Innovation Looking at the lineup for next week’s SF MusicTech Summit, you might be surprised to see people, not only from the music and tech industries, but from government and law, as well as artists coming together to discuss this growing […]

API Crash Course As part of our collaboration with Startupbootcamp Berlin, the leading global startup accelerator with a focus on Smart Transportation & Energy, we ran an API Crash Course workshop. The slides are available on SlideShare and embedded at the bottom of […]

3scale Supports VisionMobile in Largest Global Developer Survey We are happy to announce that we will be supporting VisionMobile again for the 8th edition of their Developer Economics report, which surveys over 7,000 mobile developers. VisionMobile is the leading research company […]

Last weeks fourth (are we already on 4?!) APIStrat conference kicked off on Wednesday with 6 great workshops, evening drink meetings and then rolled on from there. Over the full two and half days of the conference there were amazing […]